“Remote and ineffectual don.”
“The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.”
“It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.”
“It is the best of all trades, to make songs, and the second best to sing them.”
“When I am dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.''”
“I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.”
“Loss and possession, Death and life are one. There falls no shadow where There shines no sun.”
“Just as there is nothing between the admirable omelet and the intolerable, so with autobiography.”
“Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.”
“I shoot the Hippopotamus With bullets made of platinum, Because if I use leaden ones His hide is sure to flatten 'em.”
“From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.”
“Be at the pains of putting down every single item of expenditure whatsoever every day which could possibly be twisted into a professional expense and remember to lump in all the doubtfuls.”
“When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.”